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  1. Questions raised on New York City Has a Y2K-Like Problem, and It Doesn't Want You To Know About It (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The problem has raised questions about whether the city had taken appropriate measures to prepare the network for the GPS rollover." I would say it raised answers not questions. The question, did NYC prepare for the GPS rollover, was answered a resounding and emphatic NO, they did not even try to prepare.

  2. All I can say to Microsoft is that revenge is a dish best served cold with a side of irony. It sucks that the other browsers have to deal with this shit but Microsoft deserves this since it was their favorite thing to do back in the 90s.

  3. Re: BeauHD.. so timely as always on Apple Hit With Class Action Suit Over Lack of Dust Filters In Macbook, iMac (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    All news is by definition, recent history.

  4. That's because it doesn't need filters, it's bloody components, especially the screen, aren't sealed.

  5. Is this an Onion Article? on Ford Patents a Way To Remove 'New Car Smell' (freep.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Ford getting a patent for "parking in the sun with windows slightly open" sounds like an Onion Article.

  6. Am I the only one on Google Is Closing Its Schaft Robotics Unit (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Who's the black private dick, That's a sex machine to all the chicks? (Schaft) You're damn right. Who is the robot that would risk his neck for his brother, man? (Schaft) Can ya dig it? Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about? (Schaft) Right on. You see this cat Schaft is a bad mother- (Shut your mouth) But I'm talkin' about Schaft. (Then we can dig it) He's a complicated robot but no one understands him but his programmer. (Google Schaft)

  7. The entire system is constructed to funnel middle class and lower class taxes to the rich, because they own, operate and authored the system that they benefit from. Meanwhile, my taxes have not changed a single cent because to the rich we are subhuman and undeserving simply by being weak enough to be their victims. Thus always with sociopaths. Trumpers are merely useful idiots to be used to genocide the poor through climate change and economic rape.

  8. The Irony on A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I posit that if you have been arguing for more than a decade on the internet about the definition of neuroticism, you ARE the definition of neuroticism.

  9. HA HA, you thought your homebrew infrastructure was up to snuff.

  10. Re:Talk about perversion! on Sony Tries Using Blockchain Tech For Next-Gen DRM (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Only SONY can take a technology intended to increase freedom, and turn it into a method of censorship! Good gawd! this company disgusts me. I stopped buying their products when they started putting malware on DVD's they were selling customers.

    That's the modus operandi for the wealthy in general. Hell the internet itself, which was a utopian vision of communication, has long since been weaponized as a tool for oppression.

  11. Slightly insulting on Wi-Fi Now Has Version Numbers, and Wi-Fi 6 Comes Out Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I think anyone who can't figure out that the letter 'n' comes after 'b' or that in version numbers that include letters 'ac' comes after 'n' is also too stupid to know that 6 comes after 5.

  12. Re:Rolled-over too easily on CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    This is true but a C&D is the first step to shut it down and not necessary if they weren't planning on it. This is Anaxar all over again.

  13. Re:That's not all they've shut down on CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    ally CBS only shuts down fan projects for Star Trek when it's better than whatever they are making. For example, a fan project, Axanar about the first Federation Klingon war, was originally given the blessing of the studio to proceed so the fan production company made Prelude to Axanar and got a Kickstarter going to fund it. After CBS watched Prelude and realized that it had a more engaging story, more recognized actors and more faithful to canon (not to mention had a better-looking ship which is a big deal to ST fans) than their own property in development, the much-maligned abomination that is Star Trek: Discovery, they immediately began a legal war to stop the project for reasons that didn't become clear until ST:D launched. So this tells us two things, one they have a commercial project that uses a recreation of the Enterprise and two they don't want comparisons with whatever they're making with sweatshop pixel monkeys and something made with love by fans. I was going to pass on this whole thing because I figured it would suck but now they are doing this I'm going to find a place I can download it from as soon as I get home.

  14. Re:Shut em down. on Video Game Loot Boxes Under Scrutiny By 16 Gambling Regulators (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The only good pay to win gamer is a pwnd pay to win gamer!

  15. Doing that with books is hard, but yeah, totes. Right now with Apple, what you are actually doing is a long-term rental or lease, legally speaking, that grants you access as long as Apple has a "copy right" to distribute the file. When Apple no longer has that right, they revoke those rights for everyone that sub-leased the file from Apple. This lease is clearly laid out, buried under a mountain of text in the License agreement with Apple, and deceptively labeled "Buy" in the store. Even though the buy button is clearly there to mislead you into thinking you own the file and is only there to defraud you since if they put "long-term rental" or "Leased for the duration of licensing terms with rights holder" you would just order the Blu-ray from Amazon for less money and rip the fucking yourself. Ultimately this is fraud since your intent is to own a copy of the movie and Apple and the rights holder are misleading you with deceptive language and practices to make you think that you bought, and now own, something that you didn't.

  16. Which is why... on Apple Can Delete Purchased Movies From Your Library Without Telling You (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...movies are always free on The Pirate Bay.

  17. Re:What do you know the man is a comitted lefty on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Democrats today are just 1980s and early 90s Republicans, the Clintons lead that transition. If the actual left rose up the Democrats would get the bullet too. Nixon was to the left of Barack Obama on most issues, including his commitment to bringing pointless wars to an end.

  18. About F***ing time on 'The Big Bang Theory' Is Finally Ending (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The nerdface on this show was outright offensive, they made Sheldon's blatant autism the punch line of every gag where the punchline wasn't about just participating in nerd culture and if you watch it with the laugh track edited out everyone sounds like an unfunny psychopath, which only makes the nerdface more offensive. At the least, it's condescending to everything geeky and at worst, a hateful show made by people who should have known better but didn't. F*** this show.

  19. To the surprise of... on The First Real Boom in Virtual Reality? It's Pornography. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    To the surprise of not one single person, except the idiot who wrote this article who is apparently utterly ignorant of how the web got started in 94.

  20. If it didn't use (LF) or (CR) what the hell did it use?

  21. Re:Salesforce Tower damages the beauty of SF on Massive New 'Salesforce Tower' Light Sculpture: AI, Ubuntu, Fog, and a MacBook (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Agree.

  22. Re:Salesforce Tower damages the beauty of SF on Massive New 'Salesforce Tower' Light Sculpture: AI, Ubuntu, Fog, and a MacBook (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Longtime South of MArket Resident here, It wouldn't be so bad if the crap they put on it didn't suck. They have this one loop of people, filmed from above waiting for the crosswalk to change then cross, this ugly, pixelated, zombie street crossing bullshit runs for several minutes. As far as San Francisco corporate art is concerned this one should have been left on the refrigerator. At least it's not just a giant animated Salesforce billboard, although the building is still young.

  23. Hell, I chained that skinny bitch to the wall and made him my barista.

  24. Pay to win on Star Citizen Video Game Launches $27,000 Players' Pack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    For those of you concerned about the class implications of Star Citizen's extreme pay to win PVP model there is but one retort, "Silence Pleebs!"

  25. The safest Router is on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    One not connected to a network powered off and in an underground fallout shelter, air-gapped from the world by a vacuum chamber inside a Faraday cage. Everything else is hackable.